Photo: Dante0301 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsLandmark· Culion· Philippines
Culion Museum and Archives
11° 53.5′ N · 120° 1.4′ E
The former 1930 laboratory of the Culion leper colony, now a museum and archive of a century of isolation and medical history, inscribed on UNESCO's Asia-Pacific Memory of the World register and declared a National Cultural Treasure in 2024.
Practical
Inside the Culion Sanitarium and General Hospital compound (Wikipedia/GeoHack). Collections include medical journals, photographs, correspondence and the special currency issued for colony residents from 1913. Culion received its first 370 patients in 1906 and was declared leprosy-free by WHO in 2006. Damaged by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013, reopened July 26, 2014. Hours and fees not published in the sources found: ask in town. A short walk from the waterfront.
Best for
Understanding Culion's extraordinary history
Nearby
- Culion Sanitarium and General HospitalRight here
- Culion Fort and Church (La Inmaculada Concepcion)0.1 NM away
- Tirimes-Times Festival (Culion)0.1 NM away
- Culion Town Anchorage0.2 NM away
- Culion Market and Waterfront Stores0.3 NM away
- Culion Rural Health Office (clinic) and Water0.3 NM away
- Irako Maru Wreck4.7 NM away
- Lusong Gunboat Wreck4.8 NM away
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